WTF! $550.00 Opti......
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Launching!
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WTF! $550.00 Opti...... My Opti is going I think and I called advanced and they want $550.00 for an ACDelco 
Half tempted to just buy an Accel. Am I looking in the wrong places? Guy at advanced say it came with "cap and rotor and distributor thingy" After he said "Wow what is this thing!" 
Half tempted to just buy an Accel. Am I looking in the wrong places? Guy at advanced say it came with "cap and rotor and distributor thingy" After he said "Wow what is this thing!" 
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From: Spokane, WA
Look for the parts pros on ebay. Thepartsladi doesn't exist anymore and thepartspros were basically her supplier IIRC. Loooooong story. If you look through the pages on this forum you'll probably find it before too long.
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But I just installed my new Delco opti and the car runs better now, no slight idle surge or anything. I didnt pay anywhere near the selling price though lol
I bought the $200 brand new cardone select from advanced and put an msd cap and rotor on it locktited the rotor and cap screws and used permatex gasket dressing to help seal it up and have 1300 miles on it DD and drove it thru a f'ing monsoon here in FL last week ......runs better that ever
Pretty big thread about options in the post-partsladi era:
https://ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt4-m...lace-opti.html
I found yet a third outfit that seems to have taken the partsladi/partspros baton. From my post in thread above:
How about $250.00 for unvented, $295.00 for vented?
store name = "buyitnowmakeityours"
Look at the items they were selling before they started selling parts... WTF?
I was also intrigued by this one from "gr8hotrods" & probably will buy one even though I just installed a new Delphi:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/92-93...item45f2e3190b
Looking up what an Allen Synchrograph is:
"We unbox, modify, rebuild and test every single unit ourselves on our Allen Synchrograph to make sure you get a 100% working distributor with no issues, ready to drop-in and run."
Looks like they (buyitnowmakeityours) have 4 vented and 2 unvented left at time of this post...
https://ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt4-m...lace-opti.html
I found yet a third outfit that seems to have taken the partsladi/partspros baton. From my post in thread above:
How about $250.00 for unvented, $295.00 for vented?
store name = "buyitnowmakeityours"
Look at the items they were selling before they started selling parts... WTF?
I was also intrigued by this one from "gr8hotrods" & probably will buy one even though I just installed a new Delphi:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/92-93...item45f2e3190b
Looking up what an Allen Synchrograph is:
"We unbox, modify, rebuild and test every single unit ourselves on our Allen Synchrograph to make sure you get a 100% working distributor with no issues, ready to drop-in and run."
Looks like they (buyitnowmakeityours) have 4 vented and 2 unvented left at time of this post...
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My advice on Opti's is simply this....Give the Chandler Motorsports opti a shot. I ordered one for $115 shipped with a one year warranty. I believe he also has one with a lifetime warranty for like $175. I personally had a 30-45 minute phone chat with Mr. Chandler himself. I asked him all the questions I knew people on tech would be interested in knowing. It seem like a very legit option to a $500 opti from somewhere else. He even gave me sales numbers and % failure rates. Im trying to talk him into coming on here as a sponsor as well. He is currently selling through ebay, but maybe with some encouragement, he will become a sponsor here. Here's the pics of the one I bought
My advice on Opti's is simply this....Give the Chandler Motorsports opti a shot. I ordered one for $115 shipped with a one year warranty. I believe he also has one with a lifetime warranty for like $175. I personally had a 30-45 minute phone chat with Mr. Chandler himself. I asked him all the questions I knew people on tech would be interested in knowing. It seem like a very legit option to a $500 opti from somewhere else. He even gave me sales numbers and % failure rates. Im trying to talk him into coming on here as a sponsor as well. He is currently selling through ebay, but maybe with some encouragement, he will become a sponsor here. Here's the pics of the one I bought
